Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 11

Gazette Even ng PAGE ELEVEN RENO, NEVADA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1957 Royal Nevada Closes Council Revokes Business License Blind People Here Not Helped By Firm, Councilman Contends Voting unanimously, Reno councilmen revoked the city business license of Handicapped Products, formerly Blind Made products, after a long hearing at the regular city council session Monday night. The firm's business has been house to house selling of products made in California and Wisconsin factories by blind and otherwise handicapped persons. Saying "It has been clearly shown that salespeople Sparks Council Votes Increase In Sewer Rate Private Police Patrols Given Board Approval Sparks city councilmen met Monday night to approve private police patrols in the rail city, increase sewer rates and building permit fees, and to recommend modifications and improvements in traffic planning. Lloyd D. McNulty, owner of the Reno Patrol Police, was allowed to start a similar mer Big eating I for the firm represent false' I in- i fig The big Royal Nevada hotel of Las Vegas beat the state's cheating charge, but it couldn't win the battle of dollars.

Operators of the million-dollar enterprise quietly covered the gambling tables in its plush casino Monday afternoon even as the State Gaming Control board acknowledged it didn't have enough evidence to make its NATIONAL PRESIDENT of Sigma Delta Chi journalism fraternity, Robert Cavagnaro, opposite, paid official visit to Ne-V vada undergraduate chapter Sunday to present Beckman efficiency trophy voted to the group at national convention last month. Cavagnaro, Associated Press executive, is shown above with, left, A. L. Higginbotham, head of the University of Nevada department of journalism and, right, Robert Mount, president of the chapter. (Dewey Berscheid photo) TROPHY PRESENTED TO NEVADA CHAPTER University of Nevada chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism fraternity, was presented the Beckman Efficiency I Trophy by SDX national president Robert J.

Cavagnaro at a dinner meeting Sunday night. The highest award undergraduate chapters can receive, the Beckman trophy was presented to the Nevada chapter for its PHONE FA 3-3161 Council Notes Reno Housing Project's End Reno councilmen set the be ginning of the end for the High land Terrace housing project, on Highland avenue, at their regu lar meeting Jf onday night. They directed the housing manager not to fill any va cancies that occur in the low-rent project. The housing action was accomplished as part of a meet- in er that ran from 8 p. m.

to 11:30. It was the first step in plans to abandon the buildings that were erected by the federal gov ernment to fill housing needs during World War II. Plans call for using the site as a city park or a school site. SPITZ IS CITED Another action Monday night was an official commendatiDn for Reno Police Capt. Louis Spitz, who announced his resig nation Monday morning after 18 years of service.

On the motion of Councilman Harold A. Mathisen, the council voted to "Commend Captain Spitz on the wonderful work he has done during his years on the Reno Police department and to wish him well." The captain has not revealed his plans for the future after lie actually leaves the department Jan. 15. The council approved a $15,000 part payment to the firm of Vhay and Grow, architects, for work done to date on designing the new airport terminal building. Fred Lymbery, who said he is building an 80 unit trailer court near Moana Lane, was given; tentative approval for use of hot water from Moana Hot Springs to warm a planned swimming pool.

The approval is revocable at any time, and is subject to an investigation by City Manager C. B. Kinnison to determine whether or not the allocation is legally permissible. Kinnison, City Engineer El liott Cann and Lew Berrum, former owner of the hot springs, has recommended against the request. GET SIX MONTHS Owners of the Chinese Joss house, on East First street, were given six months to raze the building, which has been ruled unsafe by the city condemnation board.

The city manager and city at torney were given authority to offer $600 a front foot for property needed on the west side of South Virginia street for a westerly extension of Plumb Lane. Kinnison said the owner had asked $1000 a front foot. Councilmen also granted a variance to W. R. Jordan for construction of a housing unit at 612 Quincy St.

The variance had been denied by the Reno Board of Adjustment because of insufficient side yard space, but was granted on appeal. Purse Snatcher Gets $24 Cash A slender but determined purse snatcher got $24 in cash from a Sparks housewife Sunday even'ng the hard way. Mrs. Katherine Leonard told police she was walking toward her home at 1539 at 9:45 p.m. At the corner of 17th and streets she passed a man "about 5'7" tall, 150 pounds, dark hair." She said he grabbed her purse.

She hung on, even though knocked down, until he struck her wrist. He ran north on 17th street, with her purse. CHARLIE BROWN. 1 IF I DICTATE A LETTER. UJllL YOU WRITE IT FOR ME? I "I "-fe card cheating charge stick Closure of the casino happened in less than two years at the Royal Nevada foretells a bleak Christ mas for an estimated 130 employes who today no longer have jobs.

The season can be even bleak er, however, for hotel president T. W. Richardson, who since February has watched more than $300,000 of his own money disappear into the never-never land of Las Vegas gambling. WALKS BUSTED "Richardson is walking away from this thing busted," said the hotel's attorney, Thomas Foley. Until two years ago, Richardson was a moderately well-off operator of a small hotel and casino in the Biloxi, resort area.

He came to Las Vegas as a favor to a banker friend who had invested in Las Vegas gambling. Also facing heavy losses in the closing of the Royal Nevada ca sino are the other two owners, Robert Ryne of Las Vegas and Edward Chandler of Somerville, N. J. Chandler is independently wealthy, however. Closure of the casino put an abrupt end to a state hearing aimed at revoking the Royal Nevada gambling license.

The hearing had already run for three days and there were indi cations that it would have con tinued until Christmas. The gaming control board had charged the hotel license should be revoked not only because of the cheating charge and a lack of proper financing but because of the association in the management of persons the state feels to be unsavory or ineligible for a gambling license. HOTEL IS OPEN One of the latter was Maurice Friedman, general manager of the hotel portion of the business. He said the 200 rooms will con tinue to operate with limited bar and food service. The hotel operators acknowl edged that they didn't have enough financing to keep the casino going, and insisted they never could obtain additional money as long as the cheating charge was pending.

That's why Foley asked for an extraordinary ruling from the board on the cheating ques tion. He contended there would be no point in trying to defend the hotel against the other charges unless a decision was made on that point The upshot was that the con trol board held its evidence two observations of blackjack cheating by a single undercover agent wasn't sufficient to sup port suspension or revocation of the licenses. It still can order the license taken away, however, on the charge covering the lack of money. This would be pretty much of a moot order since the other charges. No evidence was presented either to support or refute those charges Masonic Lodge Officers Named A.

Fred Funk was elected master of Mt. Rose lodge No. 40, F. and A. M.

at the annual election of officers this week in the Masonic temple in Reno. Other elective officers are: Earl White, senior warden; L. A. Ferris, junior warden; Fred Karrasch, treasurer; W. E.

Dunning, secretary and Harold Chism, junior past master, trustee. The officers will be installed at an open meeting Dec. 30. MISSING All-points bulletins have been issued by the Washoe county sheriff's office in the search for a Washoe valley rancher missing since Friday. The missing man is Steve Beia (above), 33, of the B-E ranch, about four miles north of Carson.

Deputies said he left his new $8000 car, with personal belongings inside, at the Reno garage at 5:30 p. m. Friday. They said they can locate no one who has seen him since. Beia is well known here and in Carson.

His wife, Nancy Beia said she has absolutely no idea of what may have happened to her husband. The missing man is five feet, ten inches tall, has hazel eyes, dark brown crew-cut hair, and a scar below his left eye. Motel Signs Are Argued By Councilmen Reno councilmen got deeper and deeper into the question of motel signs on Fourth street Monday. With Monday night scheduled for a public hearing on a variance to make Town House motor lodge sign on Fourth street legal, councilmen agreed in the afternoon to grant a conditional variance good only until Aug. 31, 1961, the end of the term of the motel's lease on the sign.

Then at the public hearing Monday night a group of operators of motels near the sign location made the council take a second look. Paul Argeres, owner of the In Town motel, said the sign was next to his building and tended to direct customers away from him and to the Town House. He brought an 18-name petition and said the sign affected ten other motel operators of the neighborhood. Sentiment of the other motel men present ranged from "If the Town House can do it, we should be able to put up signs too," to "We don't want Fourth street cluttered with signs." No Town House representative was present at the night session. After hearing the comments, councilmen agreed to start over again and referred the question to committee.

The Town House sign is one of two on West Fourth street erected in violation of zoning provisions. Councilmen said the Town House sign was apparent' ly put up in good faith after a building permit was issued erroneously. Zoning in the area concerned permits signs on business prem ises, but the Town House is on West Second street and the El Rancho motel, which has the other sign involved, is on East Fourth street. The El Rancho sign was erected without a building permit, and the city has ordered it torn down. The El Rancho is resisting the city order and has taken the case to Washoe county district court.

ly that part of the money from sales goes to blind people here," Councilman William L. Foster made the motion for revocation. TELL INCIDENTS During the hearing several representatives of the Nevada Federation of the Blind, including G. I. Qrcutt, former presi dent of the organization, said they had been given the false impression that blind people in Nevada were to be aided by the firm.

The incidents they mentioned were described as occurring about three years ago. Albert Morris, who operates the firm, denied that he had ever instructed his salesmen to claim that blind in Reno, or in Nevada, were aided by purchases of the products. Foster, who said he had per sonally encountered one of the salesmen at his home, said it was not a question of direct statements, but one of implica tion that local blind aid was given. Morris was represented at the hearing by Attorney Eli Livie- rato, and supported by L. M.

Clayberger, of the California state department of education. Clayberger said Morris sales here supported from five to ten handicapped persons in the California plants making household items. PRESSURE BROUGHT Pressure for revocation of the license was brought on the city by the Nevada blind federation. Confusion developed with regard to Morris' prices during the hearing. Clayberger said prices for the products here were less than minimum prices etsablished in California.

Then Mayor Len Harris asked the California price of a plastic broom on display at the meeting and was told that it sold for from $3.95 to $4.95. Morris said his price was $5.95, but added that transportation costs accounted for the difference. Drop Purchase Of Newspaper Sale of the Nevada State News to R. C. Keeney and Donald McDonald isn't going to happen, Keeney said today.

Keeney, operator of the Western Printing and Publishing Co. in Sparks and McDonald, a Reno salesman, had been nego tiating the purchase but Keeney said today they had found the step to be inadvisable. The two partners had ac quired the stock of the Nevada AFL-CIO in the newspaper, and the labor organization an nounced it was severing its connection with the weekly newspaper, long a labor organ. Before the deal fell through, Attorney Jack Streeter, who represents the Weaver Publish ing which he said holds a chattel mortgage on the print ing equipment involved, had been assisting the parties to get together. Merrill Inch has managed the operation for some time, and has been a top officer of the op erating corporation.

He recently announced he is taking a position in San Francisco. He wasn't available today and what happens next wasn't known. Last week the internal revenue service filed a tax lien for $3080 against the corporation. Reno Resident 35 Years Dies Mary a resident of Reno for 35 years, died at a local hospital Monday. Miss McKenna, a native of Ireland, came to the United States in 1910 and lived in Boston before moving to Reno.

She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Patrick Dever of Reno and Mrs. Ellen Brennen of Ireland; two brothers, Patrick McKenna of Oakland and John McKenna of Ireland two nieces, Mrs. Mar garet Hansen and Mrs. Helen Noe, both of Reno, and a nephew, William Dever of Denver, Colo.

Friends are invited to attend recitation of the rosary Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Ross- Burke Co. chapel. Requiem mass will be celebrated Thursday morning at 9:30 o'clock at St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral.

Burial will be in the family plot in Mater Dolorosa cemetery. WALKER CLOSED HAWTHORNE. Rocket test firing by the navy on Walker Lake continued this week, Monday through Friday. The lake will be closed to boating from sunrise until firing is completed each day. chant patrol in Sparks.

He can do it, councilmen said, if he doesn't let his patrolmen carry guns inside casinos and other business houses and if he pro vides them with uniforms different than those used by Sparks police. HAS A NAME McNulty, who appeared, at the meeting, agreed to everything and said he'll even call the patrol the Sparks Patrol Police. McNulty said he has three accounts in Sparks and "95 per cent of the bars in Reno." Sewer rate increases received their final reading Monday night. Monthly service fees will be $1.50 for each family unit, $2 for commercial establishments, $5 for restaurants and saloons with the minimum city license, $10 for restaurants and saloons with maximum city licenses, and $1.50 for hotels and rooming houses plus 30 cents a month for every room. Sewer tap fees will mount from $20 to $40 for connection to four-inch lines, and from $30 to $75 for connection to eight-inch lines.

Added connection fees in clude a $125 assessment for sewer taps on any structure where no building permit was issued. Trailer courts will pay $50 for the initial sewer con nection and $25 for each addi tional connection. BASED OX COST Building permits for all new homes and trailer spaces will now include an additional $50 on original permit prices based on the building cost. Councilmen also agreed to several traffic control requests from Police Chief R. J.

Galli and City Engineer C. E. Dod- son. The city will remove stop signs on 19th street and I street and switch them to I street at 19th. No parking zones will be set up for two blocks on Sullivan lane from street to Prater And councilmen agree that 12th -street should become a through street from street northward to, Prater; way.

Other traffic recommenda tions could, and did, win only the council's approval for for warding to state highway engineers. STREET LIGHTS These include street lights at Kietzke lane and Coney Island drive, flashing red 'stop lights on Coney Island drive at the same location, no left turn signs at Kietzke and Coney and the possibility of traffic lights along street. The Kietzke lane and Coney Island intersection earned all the attention, councilmen noted, from the recent hit-run accident in which a Sparks man was maimed at that location. Councilmen will ask the state for controls. Traffic surveys indicate the coming necessity of stop lights cn street, City Manager Robert Rank explained, and-wants the council to ask for state approval "since we're getting ready to draw up the new budget." Jack Varnum, who wanted two streets dedicated in his housing tract off Field street was turned down by councilmen who wtnt him first to submit subdivision plats to "prevent a hodge podge of growth." Councilmen also asked City Attorney John Gabrielli to draw up an annexation ordinance for a 23-acre, 118-home subdivision planned by George A.

Probasco. Woman Stages Taxi Holdup Sparks police haven't yet found the "stocky blonde woman" who shoved a gun into a tnxicab driver's back while he was shopping in a Sparks food store. Cab driver Pat Ford, 505 told police the woman tried to hold him up in the Sparks Food Mart at 18th street and Prater way at 6 p.m. Sunday. Ford said he had his arms full of parcels when the woman held the gun in his back and said, "I've got a gun.

Give me your money." Ford told her to "go ahead and shoot." She left without shooting. PANCHO SERVICE Friends are invited to attend funeral services for George Pan- cho Wednesday at 2 p. m. at St Mary's Episcopal church in Nixon with the Rev. J.

F. Hogben officiating. Burial will be in the Nixon cemetery. O'Brien-Rog- ers-Keiper Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. the second time this has NATIONAL COMMANDER of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Richard L.

Roudebush, above of Indianapolis will pay his official visit to Nevada department at a banquet session Wednesday evening at Circle RB lodge. VFW Leader Pays Official Visit fo State National Commander-in- Chief Richard L. Roudebush, Indianapolis, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the united btates win arrive Wednesday at 2:13 p. m. by plane.

He is making his of ficial visit to the Department of Nevada. Heading the delegation to welcome the commander-in- chief at Reno municipal airport will be Benjamin F. Winn, Reno, state commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Mrs. Claude U. Shipley, state president of the Ladies.

Aux iliary; Mrs. Edwin Giannotti, Sparks, 17th district council member of the Ladies Auxiliary, which embraces the states of Nevada, California, and Oregon, and a former state president; John J. Gammick, Elko, vice chairman of the national security committee, former 17th district national council member and past state commander. State officers from all over the state as well as VFW and auxiliary members will also be on hand to greet Roudebush. A banquet has been arranged in honor of Roudebush at the Circle R-B Lodge to be held at 7 p.

m. Advance registrations indicate there will be a large atendance. The banquet is open to all VFW, auxiliary members and the general public. Expected to attend are Mayor Len Harris and Mrs. Harris, D.

M. Shute, manager of the Veterans Administration center and Mrs. Shute; Joseph R. Jackson, managing editor, Reno Evening Gazette and Mrs. Jackson; Paul Leonard, editor I of the Nevada State Journal and Mrs.

Leonard. Gov. Charles H. Russell was invited but will be unable to attend since ne win be atendmg a Sacramento Board of Trade meeting. In charge of arrangements for the national commander's visit is Joseph Feldstein, past department commander, assist, ed by J.

Glen Thorne, past de partment commander, who will act as master of ceremonies and Hugh I. Rossolo, Elko, also past department command er, and Claude U. Shipley, department service officer and quartermaster, who is in charge of reservations. near Geiger summit will be is. sued.

Free use permits will be issued beginning Thursday, along with maps showing the cutting areas, at the state forestry office in Carson, Room 12, Capitol building, and at the district for estry office in Reno, 1350 East Second St. Until the Curtiss-Wright an nouncement, only an area controlled by the bureau of land management near Carson was open for the cutting of Christmas trees, with this offer also limited to pinon pines. Curtiss-Wright in the past few years has acquired large land holdings in western Nevada. The area in which it will allow pinon pine cutting this year previously had been opened by the BLM for the same purpose. -j top-rated achievement during the past year.

Competition is based on a chapter's activities including program, national relations, financial condition and characters of membership. Nevada's chapter of Sigma Delta Chi is one of the smallest of the 65 chapters located at college and universities throughout the United States. ACCEPTS TROPHY Accepting the trophy from Cavagnaro was president of the undergraduate chapter, Robert Mount. Cavagnaro, recently elected president at the SDX national convention in Houston, presented an informal talk at the dinner meeting. He stresesd the importance of maintaining high standards within the profession of journalism.

Present at the meeting were members of the Nevada professional chapter of Sigma Delta Chi which is made up of newsmen of the state of Nevada. Professional members elected officers for the coming year at the meeting. Nevada State Journal Editor Paul Leonard was selected president. Bryn Armstrong, assistant managing editor of the Reno Evening Gazette was elected vice president, and Gazette Reporter Edward Sling-land was named secretary-treasurer. The meeting concluded with a discussion of the steps which would be necessary to have Reno named as the convention site for the 1960 Sigma Delta Chi national convention.

The national convention would bring more than 500 newsmen and undergraduate jouralism students to Reno. Hounds Seek Missing Woman QUINCY, Dec. 10. UP) Bloodhounds were used today in a search for Mrs. Daisy Sav-ercool, 46, who went for a walk Sunday morning from her home at Prattville, near Lake Alma nor.

Sheriff W. C. Abernethy said the woman's husband told him Mrs. Savercool left a note saying she "felt she had to go for a walk," but if she wasn't home when he returned not to worry. Abernethy said he learned Mrs.

Savercool hitchhiked a ride from Prattville to Chester, a distance of about six miles. She was seen in Chester Sun day noon, then vanished. Savercool is employed by the Pacific Gas Electric Co. VA Officials Win Citations Two Veterans hospital offi cials who overpowered a shotgun killer last month were named today as winners of a federal gold medal and distinguished service citation. Newell Morse, assistant at torney for the VA hospital, and James R.

Harrison, its assistant personnel manager, will receive the awards at ceremonies Dec. 19. Harrison charged Elza Ea ton, 63, after the former chief guard had fatally shotgunned three officials in the hospital. He brushed aside the shotgun muzzle in time to deflect a blast into the wall, then assailed Eaton with his fists. When Eaton drew his pistol, Morse grabbed the gun hand and joined the Eaton was subdued by the time officers arrived.

DEAB MR. HAU5 SCWE OF MY FRIENDS AND I WERE SITTIN6 AROUND TALKING LUHtN SOMEONE MENTIONED YOUR CITY MARSHAL RETURNS TO POLICE BEAT It's Patrolman James Curtis now, rather than Reno Municipal Court Marshal Curtis. Reno councilmen followed the recommendation of Municipal Judge F. Kirby Uns-worth In returning Curtis to the jurisdiction of Chief of Police T. R.

Berrum, rather than having him work under the judge. Chief Berrum said he has assigned Curtis to the patrol division but added that his job will continue to be serving warrants on people who have failed to appear in court to answer various charges. The chief said the major advantage of the change will be that Curtis is now available for assignment to other jobs when an additional policeman is needed. The marshal position was created at the request of Municipal Judge Harry D. Anderson shortly after Anderson, who recently resigned, was elected.

The position has now been abolished. Leaves Friend Stolen Motors A 29-year-old Reno man is charged with burglary and receiving stolen goods in connection with six stolen outboard motors he allegedly left in friend's house. Arrested at 12:30 a. m. Tues.

day was Melvin Lloyd Rodgers, 1895 Wilder Ave. Police picked him up follow. mg an anonymous telephone tip that "there's a bunch of stolen motors in the basement of a house" on Thoma street. Police found the goods, but the man who owns the home said Rodgers put them there. The man, William Taylor, said Rodgers came to Taylor's home early Monday morning with a man named "Smokey" and a third man.

They had the six motors, nine boat propellors and a host of tools and other parts, in a red pickup truck. Taylor said Rodgers told him the goods came from a boat hbuse at Lake Tahoe, that went out of business. Taylor said Rodgers claimed the items "were a real good buy." Detective captain William Brodhead said all the loot was stolen from Edwards Boat House at Camp Richardson, Lake Tahoe. Brodhead said Rodgers has identified "Smokey," and said the third man is nicknamed "Frosty." Police haven't yet found either. Hopes Police Will Find Car Verdi housewife Mrs.

Wanda Hansen hopes Reno police will find her 1957 sedan which she left parked with the keys in it, Monday. Mrs. Hansen said she returned to the cream and turquoise sedan at Pine and Center streets at 1:03 p. m. to watch two men "in leather jackets" climb in and drive the car away.

She cried, "Stop!" They didn't. NATURALLY, WE BE6AN TO WONDER now you Ace, and what you HAVE BEEN DOING ALL THESE MONTHS, 12-to Pinon Pine Cut Permits Extended to Geiger Area Western Nevada residents will get another chance to cut their own pinon pine Christmas trees, this time on Curtiss-Wright land. The Nevada division of forest ry announced today that through the cooperation of 1 1 s- Wright permits for taking trees one per family from an area WHAT'S THE ITS HARD TO MATTER, CMAGLE) W5ITE WHEN VAU5EATD! Cops Of f-Duty Shed Uniforms Sparks policemen won't be allowed to wear their uniforms anymore while working part-time in rail city casinos. City councilman Robert Sullivan said Monday night that he'd received complaints that police are Dick Graves' vaults." Graves owns the Nugget casino. Police aren't guilty, Sullivan said.

They're off-duty when they work for Graves but they shouldn't be in uniform. "They should either not wear anything, or a different uniform," Sullivan said. "Not wear anything E. Richards asked. "Well, a different uniform," Sullivan said.

Councilmen agreed..